Welcome North York General Hospital to the Intelliguard RFID Solutions success stories! North York General Hospital in Toronto, Canada is the first hospital in the country to deploy an RFID enabled kit checking solution.
The IntelliGuard® Pharmacy is used to manage North York General Hospital’s (NYGH) pharmaceutical trays. A quality study confirmed that the IntelliGuard® Pharmacy System eliminated medication errors in all trays.
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Additionally, the study confirmed that the IntelliGuard® Pharmacy reduces tray restocking times on average by 4.9 minutes. “That equals 659 labor hours saved annually,” according to Edith M. Rolko, NYGH's director of pharmacy and infection prevention and control.
Check out the full story published by RFID Journal Live. It is titled "North York General Hospital Uses RFID to Restock Medication Trays" and describes how the Toronto medical facility's pharmacy's adoption of the IntelliGuard® Pharmacy is saving hours of labor and eliminating errors.
As the article explains,
"Before the automated system was implemented, a pharmacy technician would need to manually check every medication in every tray sent back to the pharmacy department after it was used. This process of identifying any missing drugs, and thereby ensuring that none are nearing expiration dates or have been recalled, was extremely labor-intensive, the hospital reports, and could only be carried out by a technician with certified training. In the case of trays used for resuscitating a patient, a second individual would check the first technician's work."
